Education: Artistic Programme for Schools by Warwick Arts Centre

Hello – and welcome to our schools and colleges programme for the Autumn Term 2015. Our programme of exhibitions, live performances and film screenings and all the enrichment activities that surround them are offered to young people as a key part of our overall creative learning programme. Through this programme we aim to:      

Spark imagination Stimulate creativity Broaden horizons Deepen knowledge Develop understanding Enrich appreciation Enhance enjoyment

The needs of children and young people are the central focus of our creative learning programme. We ensure that we create many opportunities for them to experience the richness of the arts with a wide range of accessible, enjoyable, challenging and stimulating arts learning opportunities. I hope that you’ll find much in our Autumn programme to interest you and your students, no matter what their age.

Brian Bishop Education Director

Table of Contents

Artistic Programme for Primary Schools

Making It: Sculpture in Britain: 1977 – 1986

The Children’s Bookshow

Into Film Festival

The Gruffalo’s Child

The Lost Gift

Artistic Programme for Secondary Schools & Colleges

Mead Gallery: Exhibition, Events and Activities

Complicite: The Encounter

Sue Maclaine Company: Can I Start Again Please

Kneehigh: Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs)

Into Film Festival

Headlong: The Glass Menagerie

Tim Crouch: An Oak Tree

Regent’s Park Theatre: Lord of the Flies

Booking Information / Planning Your Visit

Get More Out of Your Visit

Artistic Programme for Primary Schools

Mead Gallery

Making It: Sculpture in Britain: 1977 – 1986 An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition Thu 8 Oct – Sun 29 Nov Open Mon – Sat 12 noon – 9pm Ages: All FREE entry Making It takes a broad look at an exciting time in British art – particularly sculpture. British sculptors were taking inspiration from all over the world and from other types of artists. Their work was fresh, exciting and unusual; made from many different materials and extremely varied in size. This wide range of work is represented here – with works from such artists as Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Richard Deacon. It will inspire children (and you) as they make their own work with you in school – whether it be 3D or 2D.

A comprehensive Education Pack has been created both to give teachers a chance to see some of the works before a visit and to offer a wide range of suggestions for follow-up activities after the visit. Access the pack here; http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/education/teachers/teachersresources/.

Jessica Souhami

The Children’s Bookshow Tue 3 Nov 11am All tickets £4.50 (teachers FREE) and FREE Workshops Age: Years 3 & 4 The Children’s Bookshow is an annual tour of children’s authors and illustrators from the UK and abroad. Their aim is to delight and inspire children with great poems, beautiful illustrations and gripping storytelling, helping teachers provide their students with a rich and exciting experience of literature and create the readers and writers of tomorrow.

Picture book creator Jessica Souhami has always been fascinated by traditional tales handed down from storyteller to storyteller. Stories that were told before printing was invented. Jessica will take the children through the process of creating a picture book from early research to preparing a rough layout, from choosing the colour palette to tips on creating suspense and excitement. She will also share some of her own favourite stories.

Tickets for this event are NOT on sale through the Warwick Arts Centre Box Office. For tickets and a chance to claim one of four FREE school workshops with Jessica Souhami, please contact Liz Neville at The Children’s Bookshow on 07866 311486 or liz.bookshow@gmail.com

Into Film Festival Mon 9 – Thu 12 Nov All screenings and events are FREE The Into Film Festival is a national event run by Into Film – a charity created from the amalgamation of two leading film education charities, FILMCLUB and First Light. The festival aims to put film at the heart of children and young people’s learning, contributing to their cultural, creative and personal development. It will help educators bring learning to life for 5-19 year olds across the UK by inspiring young people to watch, make and understand film in new and creative ways.

Warwick Arts Centre is a keen supporter of the Festival and builds a programme of screenings and events for a wide age range of young people across a number of curriculum subjects.

We are currently discussing with Into Film what our full programme will be this year and more details will come soon. But we can promise an event with the British Board of Film Classification where children will see a full length film and discuss with a member of the BBFC staff why the film was given the certification it received and what the purpose of the BBFC is.

For more information on the Festival as a whole visit Into Film Festival.

The Gruffalo’s Child From the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler Thu 26 & Fri 27 Nov 10.30am & 1.30pm Tue 1 – Fri 4 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm Tue 8 – Fri 11 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm Tue 15 – Thu 17 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm 55 mins Age 3+ Theatre All tickets £9.20 (every 16th ticket FREE) One wild and windy night the Gruffalo’s child ignores her father’s warning and tiptoes out into the snow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn’t really exist…does he? Tall Stories Theatre Company are back! After last year’s run of The Gruffalo (sold out to schools), they are bringing magical, musical life to Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s captivating sequel.

Warwick Arts Centre in association with Highly Sprung and Vortex Creates

The Lost Gift Mon 14 Dec – Fri 18 Dec, performances every 10mins from 10am – 11.30am and12pm – 1.30pm. 45mins per group (approx) Schools’ Ticket Price: £9 One FREE teacher ticket for every 10 tickets purchased The Lost Gift is an ideal alternative to panto – an interactive, immersive Christmas experience where the children shape the story, solve clues and learn to help characters along the way. Ideal for Key Stage 2 pupils but also suitable for Key Stage 1 as performances can be tailored to the age range.

Step into our magical Christmas adventure and discover a story waiting to be told. Tiptoe into the wintery woods to seek the key. The key that unlocks an undiscovered journey. The journey that uncovers secrets that will take you deep underground, up into the sky and to a land of snow. The land of snow where the mystery of The Lost Gift lies …

The Lost Gift that is waiting to be found. So grab your hat, scarf and gloves*. Be part of a Christmas tale that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start without you.

(*Knitwear will be provided!)

The Lost Gift is an indoor interactive performance that you walk through in groups. We have transformed our gallery to create this magical world. Performance start times are between 10.30am and 1.30pm on Mon 14 Dec â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fri 18 Dec and will be allocated depending on your total school group size. Each school visit will be unique and tailored to the total number of school children and adults you wish to attend. The performance takes around 45 minutes.

To register your interest in attending, please follow the instructions on the enquiry form. Our Box Office team will then be in touch to arrange your visit personally. Alternatively, you can call our dedicated schools booking contacts Helen and Amanda in the Box Office on 024 7615 0930

Visit www.thelostgift.com for more information.

Artistic Programme for Secondary Schools and Colleges

Mead Gallery: Exhibition, Events and Activities Making It: Sculpture in Britain: 1977 – 1986 An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition Thu 8 Oct – Sun 29 Nov FREE entry Making It charts the emergence of a younger generation of artists practising in the UK with works of over 40 artists including Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley,Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker and Alison Wilding.

Now That’s What I Call Sculpture The 1980s in retrospect Thu 19 Nov, 2pm – 6pm Schools/Colleges £6 (limited availability) This event brings together artists, curators and academics to discuss developments in British sculpture in the late 1970s and ‘80s. It will also involve a gallery discussion with contributions from a number of the exhibiting artists.

Complicite

The Encounter Thu 8 – Sat 10 Oct 7.45pm, Sat 10 & Sun 11 Oct 2pm 2hrs (no interval) Age 12+ (some nudity) Theatre Schools/colleges £13 Twenty years ago Simon McBurney was given a book. Amazon Beaming tells the story of photographer Loren McIntyre, who, in 1969, found himself lost amongst the remote people of the Javari Valley, on the border between Brazil and Peru. It was an encounter that changed his life: bringing the limits of human consciousness into startling focus. Complicite’s new production takes McIntyre’s journey as its compass and uses cutting-edge binaural technology. The audience will experience a new level of intimate storytelling as the show explores and makes perceptible the inexplicable telepathic communication between an individual and a tribe.

Audiences will wear headphones throughout the performance, which will be supplied.

Meet Simon McBurney, Fri 9 Oct FREE. See website for full details.

Sue MacLaine Company with Nadia Nadarajah

Can I Start Again Please Tue 20 & Wed 21 Oct 7.45pm 55mins (no interval) Age 16+ Studio Schools/colleges £8 Can I Start Again Please will challenge students’ perception of theatrical form and how stories are told to an audience.

“Honed with great dignity and presence, the story within the performance unravels slowly through inference rather than straightforward narrative.” Disability Arts Online

Through a poetic script delivered in English and British Sign Language, Can I Start Again Please unravels its story slowly, heartbreakingly, through inference rather than straightforward narrative. Coffin-dark humour, bell ringing and the words of Wittgenstein combine to reflect on the capacity of language to articulate traumatic experience. “An extraordinarily eloquent piece about silence … bruning with anger, yet beautifully choreographed and powerfully controlled.” ***** The Stage.

Kneehigh

Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) A New Beggar’s Opera Written by Carl Grose Music by Charles Hazlewood Directed by Mike Shepherd

Tue 27 Oct – Sat 31 Oct 7.30pm Sat matinee 2pm 2hr 15mins Age 14+ (very strong language and sexual references) Theatre £13

The ever inventive Kneehigh return with their blazing new show. Fasten your seat belts; it’s going to be one hell of a night! Based on the Beggar’s Opera, John Gay’s classic musical satire, Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) is busting with wit, wonder and weirdness. An extraordinary Kneehigh cast of actor-musicians shoot, hoot and shimmy their way through this twisted morality tale of our times.

NOTE: If your students are on half term, they may book individually or with a group of friends for £13 per ticket.

Warwick Arts Centre is a keen supporter of the Festival and builds a programme of screenings and events for a wide age range of young people across a number of curriculum subjects.

For more information on the Festival as a whole visit Into Film Festival.

Headlong in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Tue 10 – Sun 14 Nov 2015 2 hours 30 mins Age tbc Theatre Schools/colleges £10 A frustrated mother, a daughter lost in her imagination, and a son intent on rebellion. By night, Tom lives the life of an assassin, an outlaw, a czar of the underworld, via his trips to the movies. By day, he works in a factory. In the apartment he shares with mother Amanda and sister Laura, the air hangs thick with the scent of sickly sweet flowers and his mother’s oppressive nostalgia. Laura barely survives it, a shadow of herself, clinging desperately to her only solace, a beloved glass menagerie. When Amanda insists Tom brings home a gentleman caller for Laura, the fragile dreams of all three are shattered with consequences they may never escape. Pioneering director Ellen McDougall creates this new production from Headlong, producers of The Absence of War, 1984 and The Seagull, in a co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse. One of the UK’s brightest young directing talents, her previous work includes critically acclaimed productions of Henry the Fifth, Anna Karenina, The Rolling Stone and Idomeneus.

An Oak Tree by Tim Crouch Tue 17 – Thu 19 Nov 7.45pm 75mins (no interval) Age 16+ Studio Schools/colleges £8

This is a must-see for students of theatre/drama – to open their eyes to innovative, ground-breaking theatre performed by a master of his craft.

A man loses his daughter to a car. Nothing now is what it is. It’s like he’s in a play – but he doesn’t know the words or the moves. The driver is a stage hypnotist. Since the accident, he’s lost the power of suggestion. For him, everything now is exactly what it is. They meet when the Father volunteers for the Hypnotist’s act. And, this time, he really doesn’t know the words or the moves… An Oak Tree is a two-hander, with The Hypnotist played by Tim Crouch and The Father played by a different guest actor at each performance. These different actors walk on stage having neither seen nor read a word of the play – until they’re in it! This multi award–winning play, on its 10th anniversary tour contains a dazzling balance of gripping story, rich theatricality and shocking humour.

Meet Tim Crouch, Tue 7 Nov FREE. See website for full details.

COMING SOON Regent’s Park Theatre

Lord of the Flies from the book by William Golding adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams

Mon 22 – Sat 27 Feb 7.30pm Matinee Thu 25 11am 2hrs Age: 11+ Butterworth Hall Schools/colleges £13 (limited availability for evening performances) After a group of schoolboys survive a massive plane crash, what starts as a classic desert island adventure quickly becomes a struggle for survival as superstition and immorality sees the community slide into a darkly sinister world. “This is a riveting stage version of William Golding’s still shattering novel … and it unfolds with a dreadful, compelling inevitability.” **** Sunday Express

Image: Original production shot – 2011. Johan Persson

Booking Information To book ticket*, contact Helen and Amanda, our dedicated schools’ booking team:  

Telephone: 024 7615 0930 Email: groupbookings@warwick.ac.uk

Please note: the schools’ booking team work Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 10am – 4pm *Excluding The Childrens Bookshow and the Into Film Festival

Risk Assessment You can download a copy of our risk assessment form from our website: http://bit.ly/WAC_Risk.

Planning Your Visit All of the information you require to plan your visit to Warwick Arts Centre can be found on our website in the ‘Your Visit’ section: www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/your-visit. We regularly update the website with information on parking, accessibility, facilities, and opening hours. If you are unable to find the information you require, please contact Helen or Amanda in the schools’ booking team (details above).

Get More Out Of Your Visitâ&#x20AC;Ś Sculpture and Colour Trail The University of Warwick has an important collection of 800 pieces of modern and contemporary art that is spread right across campus. We have developed a Sculpture Trail and a Colour Trail to give individuals, family groups and school parties access to parts of that collection. Anyone can follow the Trails independently with the support of Trail leaflets that are available FREE OF CHARGE from Box Office. Schools can opt to take either Trail with the support of trained leaders who can stimulate reaction through observation, drawing and discussion.

Sculpture Trail Trained leaders take pupils on a journey around campus looking at 5 or 6 works of abstract sculpture. These vary in size, shape, material, colour and making technique â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from the carved marble of Dark at Heart by Peter Randall-Page to the bird-like painted aluminium of Op Mobile no. 10 by Nechemia Azaz. Colour Trail Children are taken on an indoor trail of abstract art works focusing particularly on the use of colour, thinking and talking about the spectrum, how colours are made, the feelings they evoke and the techniques the artists have used. Works include Orange with Lemon and White by Patrick Heron and the huge wall painting Everything by Ian Davenport. Schools can book either Trail by contacting the Education Team on 024 7657 4786 / 024 7615 1793 or ed.artscentre@warwick.ac.uk.

Talks and Workshops Warwick Arts Centre holds a range of talks and workshops each season, suitable for all ages, to support the programme of events. Simply visit the performance event pages and look for the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Get more out of you visitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; section.